The Circassian museum at Uzuntarla, in Kartepe, covers the culture from several directions at once: the kitchen and its dishes, the implements of ordinary daily life, traditional dress, and the history of the Circassian exile that brought the community to Anatolia.
It was opened by Kartepe Municipality on 11 May 2026, and the municipality describes it as the first official Circassian museum in Türkiye and as the second private museum in the district.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kocaeli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 24 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (108 mm) and lightest in August (42 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
